The increased role of foreign-born academic staff in US higher education

Webber, Karen L.; Yang, Lijing

doi:10.1080/1360080x.2013.844671

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“…Driven by a combination of business motives and leisure motives, in the context of this study bleisure travelers encompass university academics whose main purpose for traveling is to develop or build business partnerships with an overseas institution. In this context, bleisure travelers are unique in that their trip abroad is usually financed by work and that the international experience is likely to enhance career progression (Thorn 2009;Dickmann 2012), lifelong learning and research output (Webber and Yang 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

Bleisure: motivations and typologies

Lichy

McLeay

2017

Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing

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The theme of motivation in travel and tourism research has been largely dominated by a leisure focus and has consequently failed to reflect the changing landscape of business travel. This paper focusses on exploring the motivations of different types of 'bleisure travelers':individuals who combine leisure with professional business obligations when abroad. We employ a multi-disciplinary mixed-methods approach, using photo-elicitation to identify and describe five types of bleisure. As existing theories of tourist motivations have mainly been developed in a leisure context, they fail to fully capture the nuanced scope and subtle context of business and leisure motives. We therefore draw upon experiential learning, boundary-less career theory, expectancy theory and social capital theory in order to put forward contemporary insights on the nexus between business and leisure tourism.

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Bleisure: motivations and typologies

Lichy

McLeay

2017

Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing

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“…In addition to the intersections of gender and race, some female faculty of color experience the added obstacles associated with being immigrants. Using data from the 2004 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty, Webber and Yang (2014) reported that foreign-born faculty present their research at conferences significantly more than their US-born peers. Non-native English-speaking faculty may experience another layer of credibility challenges (Hernandez, Ngunjiri, and Chang, 2015;Kim et al, 2014Skachkova, 2007.…”

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“…Nearly half of WVU participants were immigrant faculty (n=25), which is 56% (45) of all full-time immigrant faculty employed at WVU (WVU, 2018). The program appears to be even more impactful for foreignborn faculty because they tend to present their research more than their US-born peers (Webber and Yang, 2014).…”

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Caregiving and Conferencing: Supporting Faculty Participation in Conference Travel

Tower¹

2021

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Participation in academic conferences is vital to faculty careers. A statewide program in West Virginia sought to remove travel-related barriers for scholars by reimbursing caregiving costs incurred from traveling. While women were the majority of applicants, faculty of immigrant status and those of color reported more benefits from travel. Family travel funds were requested most often to offset childcare responsibilities for dual career couples. For institutions aiming to implement intersectional, multipronged approaches to institutional change, supporting family travel is vital for the professional development of underrepresented faculty.

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“…Namely, this type of employee has very specific needs regarding what drives their loyalty besides financial rewards. A supportive environment and the availability of scientific research resources have a great impact on academic staff satisfaction (Webber and Yang 2014). On the other hand, their loyalty cannot be always assumed even when they are satisfied, primarily because of their inherent motives for achieving self-promotion and joining prestigious universities and the academic elite.…”

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“…This is a consequence of social exchange theory (Emerson 1976), which suggests that an individual's choice of academic career may be a result of their desire to achieve cognitively rich relationships with other individuals (students and academic peers). This implies that an attractive intellectual environment and challenging research atmosphere can easily cause an individual's decision to change their organization (Webber and Yang, 2014).…”

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We are Happy Here and We Will Stay, What about You? The Cross-Level Impact of Employee Loyalty and Performance on Student Loyalty

Ganic

Babić-Hodović

Arslanagić-Kalajdžić

2018

South East European Journal of Economics and Business

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The purpose of this study is to examine links between, on the one hand, employee satisfaction, loyalty and performance, and on the other, the relationship between customer satisfaction and loyalty, as well as their inter-relationship. We conducted a study with employees (53 employees) and students (262 students) across seven departments of a private university in a developing European country. In order to test the cross-level effects of employee-level constructs on student-level constructs, a multilevel analysis was conducted using hierarchical linear modeling. The results confirmed the positive effect of employee satisfaction on employee loyalty and employee performance, but not the impact of the employees’ loyalty on their performances. At the same time, the results showed that students’ satisfaction was positively related to loyalty. Finally, the results showed that, unlike employee performance, employee loyalty at the level of the department had a positive and significant impact on the students’ loyalty and also enhanced the effect of students’ satisfaction on student loyalty.

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The increased role of foreign-born academic staff in US higher education

Cited by 17 publications

References 22 publications

Bleisure: motivations and typologies

Bleisure: motivations and typologies

Caregiving and Conferencing: Supporting Faculty Participation in Conference Travel

We are Happy Here and We Will Stay, What about You? The Cross-Level Impact of Employee Loyalty and Performance on Student Loyalty

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